Curated category
American computer scientists
- Paul WerbosPaul Werbos completed a doctoral dissertation in 1974 that contained the first formal description of training artificial neural networks through…
- John SchulmanJohn Schulman sat in front of a television screen during the 2005 school year. The program BattleBots played on the screen featured remote-controlled robots…
- Vernor VingeVernor Steffen Vinge spent decades asking one question that made both scientists and storytellers uncomfortable: what happens when machines become smarter…
- Jon KleinbergJon Kleinberg grew up in a household where mathematics and computing were simply the texture of daily life. His father Eugene was a mathematics professor at…
- John von NeumannJohn von Neumann once told a colleague that the second incompleteness theorem had struck a harder blow to mathematics than even its discoverer believed.
- Nick SzaboNick Szabo looked at the Internet in the early 1990s and saw a fundamental problem: strangers doing business with each other had no reliable way to enforce…
- Marvin MinskyMarvin Minsky once described intelligence as the possible product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts. That idea alone reshaped how scientists and…
- Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)Arthur Lee Samuel coined the term "machine learning" in 1959, and the computers of his era had almost no memory to spare.
- Daniel HuttenlocherDaniel Huttenlocher holds 24 patents in computer vision, a total reached by 2015 after decades of research. Yet his most widely read work carries two other…
- Terry WinogradTerry Allen Winograd was born on the 24th of February 1946, and he would go on to become one of computing's most quietly influential figures.
- David ChaumDavid Lee Chaum, born in 1955, sketched the blueprint for digital privacy long before most people had an email address. In 1982, the same year he finished…
- Edward FredkinEdward Fredkin bought chemistry supplies at age 10, made his own fireworks in Los Angeles, and got in trouble because fireworks were illegal.
- John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in the summer of 1956, and spent the rest of his life trying to build exactly what that phrase…
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl entered the world on the 4th of September 1936 in Tel Aviv. This city sat within the British Mandate for Palestine at that time.